Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 1161 - 524: Horizontal Three Buddhas and Vertical Three Buddhas, Another Great Thousand World?_2
[No! That fierce giant beast isn’t a physical entity, but rather a phantom image emerging above the Dragon Spear!]
[The moment such a thought arose in His mind, He was swallowed whole by the dragon!] 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
[The dragon spread its wings and let out a roar, releasing its peerless dragon might once more...]
[As the phantom dissipated, ’Void Hidden Trace Buddha’ had been impaled through the chest by the Dragon Spear, firmly nailed upon the ruins of the main hall!]
[His shattered body turned into rubble, from which the emanating black smoke condensed into human form instead of escaping, plaintively begging for mercy to spare His life.]
[To the side, the young Dharma King found the scene so unbelievable, he couldn’t trust his own eyes; ’Void Hidden Trace Buddha’, worshipped day and night by tens of thousands of people in Qingtang City, in his heart the most sacred and supreme Buddha, had just had His Incense Fire Body slain by you in a single strike.]
[Now this Buddha, known for His vast spiritual powers and boundless magical force, was actually begging before you, tail between legs, merely wishing that you would spare His life...]
[Such a shocking scene caused the young Dharma King’s steadfast faith to collapse thunderously...]
[The White Elephant Demon let out a heh-heh upon seeing this, recalling when the junior brother had achieved enlightenment on the spot, rising two realms and slaying the Awakened Vajra Bowl, it wore an expression identical to that of the young Dharma King.]
[No, it was much calmer than the young Dharma King, barely keeping its composure, as if the mountain crumbled before it and yet its expression remained unchanged...]
[You waved and summoned back the Dragon Spear, ignoring the desperate pleas of the Buddha’s soul, and stepped towards it.]
[This scene felt familiar, just as when the Void Hidden Trace Buddha descended and manifested sanctity, He had also walked towards you step by step.]
[The soul of Hidden Trace Buddha continued to beg, Venerable One, is there still a need for an Adjacent Servant under your seat? If you don’t mind, He can serve at your side and be at your beck and call...]
Lin Xun raised his eyebrows at these words.
After slaying the Haemother, the ’Book of Technique of Desire and Emptiness’ that had burst out could contain Lifeblood to control monsters of the Immortal Level or even Immortal+ Level.
This Hidden Trace Buddha was precisely within the control range of that artifact...
However, to control enemies of the Immortal+ Level, ’The Book of Technique of Desire and Emptiness’ would need to extract Lifeblood to achieve the desired control.
Having this thought, he shook his head.
[You approached the Buddha’s soul with the spear in hand, saying with a hint of regret, "Blame it on the wrong gender, if anything."]
[After speaking, you thrust with the spear, slaying His soul...]
[You have defeated ’Void Hidden Trace Buddha’, experience points greatly increase!]
[The power within the Shell begins to surge, the level of ’Polar Star Observing Executive’s Shell’ is raised, current Shell level: 198（+2↑）]
[You have obtained ’Sutra Fragment of the Three Buddhas, Unbounded Light and Unbounded Life’ (Informational Artifact)]
[You have been afflicted by the thirty-sixth layer of ’Fallen Karma Fire’!]
"Eh?"
At the moment, the ’Vajra Bodhi Seeds’ in Lin Xun’s pocket were closed in order to accumulate Auspiciousness Value. According to the rules, accumulating Auspiciousness Value would reduce the drop rate to the lowest, preventing any corresponding artifacts from dropping, not even the most basic Spirituality items.
Now that slaying the Hidden Trace Buddha didn’t indeed result in any Spirituality or equipment skills drops, but an informational artifact had burst out.
"This situation suggests that there’s likely crucial information regarding the subsequent storyline within this informational artifact; no matter how low the drop rate, as long as the Hidden Trace Buddha is slain, it must burst out."
After some thought, Lin Xun felt this possibility was there but not very probable.
He leaned more towards another theory...
[’Sutra Fragment of the Three Buddhas, Unbounded Light and Unbounded Life’ (Informational Artifact)]
[...The page is very ancient, only bearing a few lines of text.]
[People are only aware of the ’Three Buddhas of Longitudinal Time’ but not the ’Three Buddhas of Horizontal Space’.]
[Four directions high and low constitute space, ancient to modern constitutes time; thus, there are the ’Three Buddhas of Longitudinal Time’ and the ’Three Buddhas of Horizontal Space’, with the latter measured in the spatial dimensions across all directions and the former in the temporal dimensions from ancient to modern.]
[Longitudinal Buddhas are the commonly known ’Buddha of the Past’, ’Buddha of the Present’, and ’Buddha of the Future’.]
[Horizontal Buddhas are the ’Central Buddha’, ’East Buddha’, and ’West Buddha’.]
[Among them, the Central Buddha is the same as the Buddha of the Present, but the Buddha of the Past, Buddha of the Future, and the East and West Buddhas fundamentally should not be conflated.]
[The reason why the East Buddha and West Buddha remain unknown to the world is because, before the descent of the Yama God, the East and West Buddhas were left in another Great Thousand World in the heavens outside the void, in charge of that purified Great Thousand World for the Yama God.]
[While the Longitudinal Three Buddhas accompanied the Yama God to this world to preach the Dharma on His behalf, to purify the beings of this world...]
[...]
[The fragment contains only these few lines of information.]
Lin Xun’s pupils constricted, the few lines held a massive amount of information.
The Three Buddhas were Buddhas who had attained enlightenment in this world, each with their own legacies and legends of enlightenment.
Why then, according to the records in the fragment, had they become Divine Beings who followed the Yama God from another world?
Based on previously obtained information, the ’Buddha of the Past’, ’Buddha of the Present’, and ’Buddha of the Future’ might all be gods of the Supreme Level.
Such Divine Beings should be able to dominate their own worlds as Main Gods at Nightmare Level Difficulty, yet in the current Eighth Difficulty Evil God World, they merely became followers in the Yama God’s conquests.
The piece of text revealed information differs from what Lin Xun knew of the storyline, but the key detail from the fragment wasn’t this, rather it’s that both the East Buddha and the West Buddha, two Buddha-tier Divine Beings, were left by the Yama God in the previous world.
